Garrison Comp

redoubt · Post by **redoubt** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 1:04 am

Jason's win was well-deserved! Fantastic weizen. And he seems like good people too so rock on!

Great to meet some more new (to us) Brewnosers, and re-meet others.

Kirsten

Keith · Post by **Keith** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 1:12 am

Great time! Nice to meet many familiar faces and some new. Congrats to the girls on never two!!! Omar so drunk at this point. Hahaha.

Barr · Post by **Barr** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 2:37 am

Had a great time and it was great to see everyone. Thanks to all who judged. We all appreciate it.

GuingesRock · Post by **GuingesRock** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 5:21 am

Congratulations to all.

Post by **LeafMan66_67** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 6:13 am

Congrats to all. It was a fun night!

jeffsmith · Post by **jeffsmith** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 7:31 am

Congrats all, way to represent!

GuingesRock · Post by **GuingesRock** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 8:00 am

Redoubt, Question ...Apart from fermenting a few Festas, was that the first or the second brew you ever did? BIAB right? what was your secret? I know you did a lot of research, with questions on this site and elsewhere.

Very well done!

Keith · Post by **Keith** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 8:03 am

Definitely very well done! Great job!!!

jacinthebox · Post by **jacinthebox** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 8:55 am

Scored pretty well...found out that my 60 min boils with pilsen malt just isn't enuf.
Slight dms picked up by 2 of the judges...i normally do 90 min boils...i boiled this wide open, and cooled fairly quickly...oh well back to 90 min boils when I use pilsen

Keith · Post by **Keith** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 9:12 am

I averaged around 25. Biggest thing I was out of style. I was dark for the style, and I shouldn't have added the 22 minute hop addition. I discovered these myself, but was great to get the feed back. Definately room for improvement haha.

jacinthebox · Post by **jacinthebox** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 9:44 am

I averaged 34...the biggest take away was the dms.

GuingesRock · Post by **GuingesRock** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 10:24 am

I would be interested to hear the scores from some people in the top four.

I don't have my sheets back but I late hopped mine only and used galaxy, trying to stand out from the crowd ...say no more

John G · Post by **John G** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 10:33 am

Great event last night. I don't get out to the meetings enough so it was good to see a lot of new and familiar faces. Titus' beard threw me a bit. Grizzly!

Quality of feedback from my entry this year is light years ahead of previous years thanks to the BJCP judges. I averaged 39 and most of my comments were that carbonation was too low.

CorneliusAlphonse · Post by **CorneliusAlphonse** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 12:19 pm

Congrats to all participants.

I have someone's XL competition shirt that they left at Stillwell.. Post here or pm/email me to get it back to you.

Post by **chalmers** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 12:43 pm

GuingesRock wrote:I would be interested to hear the scores from some people in the top four.

I don't have my sheets back but I late hopped mine only and used galaxy, trying to stand out from the crowd ...say no more

Sometimes standing out from the crowd by being out-of-style isn't what you want, unfortunately, but you already know that.

First round: I can tell you to advance to the second round, scores were all in the high thirties (some did crack forty). The main purpose of this round was for honest feedback and putting forth the best beers at the tables. A 38 at one table might have advanced, while at another it would not have. This is because it was judged against the other beers those same judges tasted, with the attitude, "Is this a very good Weizen, and does it have a very good chance of winning?" 13 advanced

Second round: no scores given, only notes, I do not know much about this round. 4 advanced

Final Four: I was told the scores in the Final Four round were all a bit lower (mid- to high-thirties) than in the first round, focussing more on parsing out the small differences between beers and specifically mentioning the highlights and flaws the beers may have.

jacinthebox · Post by **jacinthebox** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 2:35 pm

Lots of people thought my buddy eric was me...lol. ..good thing we all didnt wear our brathairs t shirts ...

Keith · Post by **Keith** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 3:04 pm

I kept calling the Noblegrape guy Steve and it was Mark (I didn't know). I'm not sure why he waited til the end of the night to correct me haha.

LiverDance · Post by **LiverDance** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 3:58 pm

Good to meet some new brewnosers, had a great time. Congrats to all the winners

whisle pig · Post by **whisle pig** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 4:26 pm

It was a fun night, wish I could have drank more but I'll make up for that at a later date, :spilly:

Judging sheets were great feedback this year, well done to all the judges, no major flaws and made it to the second round, super happy about that; second round comment were awesome!!
Wish my beer had been done for everyone to try ,but it is what it is!!
Congrates to the top 4 people, tried 3of the 4 and they were all really great beers , well done!!

GuingesRock · Post by **GuingesRock** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 4:40 pm

chalmers wrote:
GuingesRock wrote:I don't have my sheets back but I late hopped mine only and used galaxy, trying to stand out from the crowd ...say no more
Sometimes standing out from the crowd by being out-of-style isn't what you want, unfortunately, but you already know that.

Average score 31

“very easy drinking ale with some weizen character but too much hop character for the style. I think with less hops this beer would do very well.”

“I would drink this all night but not to style for this comp. Great job otherwise”

“Nice beer (weizen pale ale) hops are overwhelming and inappropriate for style. I’ll drink this one”

“Great beer. Not a Weizen. Some weizen character. But hops dominate – enjoyed drinking this.

I’ll try to behave next time …always was a bit of a rebel

Really good score sheets/feedback. Nice and friendly too. Thanks very much judges.

redoubt · Post by **redoubt** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 6:09 pm

GuingesRock wrote:Redoubt, Question ...Apart from fermenting a few Festas, was that the first or the second brew you ever did? BIAB right? what was your secret? I know you did a lot of research, with questions on this site and elsewhere.

Very well done!

This is the 5th brew we've done.

Yes, BIAB.

Secret? *shrugs* Tried a few new things with this. Step mash. Used gyle (unfermented wort) instead of priming sugar. First one-stage fermentation as well (all in a carboy).

GuingesRock wrote:I would be interested to hear the scores from some people in the top four.

Average from the first round was 40.

Also, just wanted to say a big thank-you to the judges. You guys clearly put a lot of effort into giving helpful comments, and it is much appreciated!

-Keely.

John G · Post by **John G** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 6:15 pm

I wonder if the winner used a decoction mash and whether Garrison can do a decoction on their system? I'd think you would need quite a good sludge pump to pull a decoction from the mash and pump it back from the kettle.

GuingesRock · Post by **GuingesRock** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 6:54 pm

I was talking to Ed today and he said the winner did do a decoction mash.

Post by **mr x** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 7:00 pm

Decoction is for chumps, melanoidan is where it's at.

:-)

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John G · Post by **John G** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 7:19 pm

From my personal experience, decoction is for people who hate themselves! There are some home experiments that indicate it's not just about flavour though. They observed you can get better head retention. however, I'd not let my beer sit for 7 mins without taking a drink, so not a real life scenario in my house. :spilly:

Found it at this link for anyone interested: http://518124.cache1.evolutionhosting.c ... ransen.pdf

FYI Brewnoser, when I was talking to you at Garrisons I meant that I used the Classic Style Series book by Eric Warner, not Gregory Noonan. I have a bad memory.

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